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A Maker's Mark for Ship Construction
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Tazarak theDeceiver
The Graduates
The Initiative.
#1 - 2012-02-26 18:25:05 UTC
I would like to see a date constructed, commissioned and built-by on all ship hulls produced in Eve. This would give a big shout-out to those behind the scene indy players who tirelessly produce hulls on the slimmest of margins. Also, I think it would be great to be able to see "how old" your ship is that you're flying. I could see a whole contract market open up for old ships with "built on" dates as early as possible.

So, what I'd like to see if you info'd a ship would be:

Ship constructed by [player] and commissioned [location] on [date].

If repackaged ever, it could say something like:

And was refurbished on [date].

Would this be a feasible feature or even an enviable one?
Velicitia
XS Tech
#2 - 2012-02-26 19:19:29 UTC
For now, it's pointless fluff ... IF you could moderately change the ships somehow (skills?) it might give rise to "oh, yeah always buy from Tazarak" or something.

Even with it being pointless fluff, it could be something they add at some point down the line (PLEASE, PLEASE let's fix stuff that's been neglected for years first).

One of the bitter points of a good bittervet is the realisation that all those SP don't really do much, and that the newbie is having much more fun with what little he has. - Tippia
joebro1060
Brutor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#3 - 2012-02-26 20:44:07 UTC
This does sound cool and I would like it as well, but it isn't something that the game needs right now to better game play. After CCp gets finished with correcting and bettering gameplay, which is A never ending battle, this would be something cool for them to add.
mxzf
Shovel Bros
#4 - 2012-02-26 21:24:45 UTC
The core problem with it is that it's additional overhead to the system and that it would make it impossible to have stacks of items the way we do now.

The packaged items issue is insurmountable with the current system. It could be possible to have an assembly date (the most recent time you assembled a ship), but it would be pretty much meaningless anyways and just another piece of database overhead that would slow the game down (however little that might be).